watch Bus 174 (Jose Padilha) 2002 Stellar documentary charting the day young Sandro do Nascimentio, raised on the streets of Rio decided to take a city bus and its passengers hostage. Whilst actual footage of the incident that was broadcast live on national television offers proceedings drama and suspense, “Speed” this is not. Padilha is…
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Belgium, October 2018
watch JCVD (Mabrouk El Mechri):Jean Claude Van Damme, Francois Damiens, Zinedine Soualem. 2008 After a decade of marking time in straight to video schlock, Van Damme made the brave decision of playing a world-weary version of himself in this ingeniously plotted crime drama. Down on his luck having lost custody of his daughter, the muscles…
Argentina, September 2018
watch El Aura (Fabian Bielinsky) Ricardo Darin, Dolores Fonzi. 2005 Released after writer/director Bielinsky’s untimely death, El Aura is a masterful slow-burn heist thriller set in a lonesome looking Patagonia. Darin’s socially awkward epileptic taxidermist is no mug and dreams of one day pulling off the perfect bank robbery before a somewhat incredible sequence…